i. thought. the presidential palace in cairo comes on the fire bomb attacks from protesters as massive demonstrations across egypt call for the president to go. a leaking blockade to the u.s. military's stands accused of violating washington's oil involved war against iraq while to run the rebels and record the export revenues. the security guards

killed and several people injured as a suicide bomber detonated an explosive device at the entrance to the u.s. embassy in the turkish capital ankara. and the british government pulls a welcome match as a fiasco of a flood of european immigrants disappointed plugging the u.k. as the world's best destination. is just gone and not one am here in moscow you live with us on our tea with me to bomb would say. at least fifteen people have been injured in fires and clashes in cairo as angry mobs attacked the presidential palace with petrol bombs there were at least six thousand protesters and they jump in capital and thousands more marching across the country demanding that president morsi stands down from power

bill true is in cairo flyers. term us it seems here in the capital as clashes have started by the presidential palace as you can see behind me reportedly bought the most groups threw molotov cocktails over the gates of the presidential building the security forces are right now on the vehicles and have been sending our not to figure out protesters are responding out with fireworks also we've just seen as police are moving tempers from my months long sitting against the president to the side of presidential building where they also set fire to triple fires on the science fair in the last few minutes has been i must say push by the security forces protesters have been fleeing in this direction in the background there's about ten ambulances are removing the engine from the front line now it's very chaotic scenes here this comes off the several protests converged in front the presidential palace on to her square as part of friday's day of the never and

protesters called this against the president's people are still chanting in amongst this chaos that the president must step down they're saying this is the sentiment across the capital the scene of lots and lots of demonstrations across the country today but the main one outside of cairo has of course we have of course i equals witnessed a week of bloody clashes and seen dozens die for science days an important day for the country as it is the year anniversary of the bloody football months ago that took place in full sight in the first of february two thousand and twelve was of course has been a point of contention for those who come here for science and i was the verdict on twenty one the famine so i'm told i'm a sentenced to death so today they came on the streets against the government against the verdict very angry scenes and a fisherman been gathering shot xandra osage downtown for the moment the focus is definitely here in the caucus over these chaotic and violent street office. they and russian agent comes despite a peace agreement signed by opposition and muslim brotherhood leaders on thursday

journalist and middle east expert ahmed fanti says those behind the accord have ignored the demands from the streets. those who have signed that some of them have openly indorsed morsi during the iran of forty presidential during the presidential elections so it only represents those who signed it and not the masses of the people you different people demands have been overlooked and. this is just a beginning it's going to be tough for it to remove morsi than it was to remove mubarak but the people in the use of egypt are determined to not settle for anything less than bread freedom social justice and human dignity france declares it's one the initial offensive against islamists in mali we've got an exclusive report on the collateral damage of the conflict with some chilling

accounts in writing about the human cost. america's oil blockade against iran its immersion may have been violated by none other than the u.s. military itself the pentagon has admitted a com account for some of the fuel it brought in for its operation in afghanistan it's now suspected that iranian petrol made up of made up a significant percentage of imports as artie's can she can explain. the u.s. gives money to the afghan government to buy fuel for its forces now u.s. officials especially specter general for afghanistan reconstruction say they cannot verify that the fuel purchased for afghan security forces in recent years did not come from iran it could be their way of saying that it most probably did cover the wrong and it could mean that the u.s. has violated its own sanctions thereby letting us taxpayer dollars go to remain coffers those sanctions that the u.s. has put in place not only for u.s.

companies from doing business with iran but also punish third party countries for doing business with iran but no matter how many rounds of sanctions are in effect they were never watertight even though the european union under a lot of pressure from washington stopped buying uranium oil you have a host of other countries that still do iran's biggest buyer now biggest buyers now are china india and japan and these countries are oil thirsty especially china so china imports of uranium oil india's imports of iranian crude were up thirty percent according to tanker arrival data western sanctions have brains oil exports in two thousand and twelve leading to a very deep plunge in the iranian currency but continuous robust demand from its top buyers as well as the purchase of new tankers allow the red to unexpectedly boost exports late last year despite the sanctions the u.s. kept absolutely poor as those major economies especially china to stop buying from

iran political and economic ramifications of such pressure would be significant but the u.s. government is trying their prompting those other countries to buy oil from washington's allies saudis and katori so you can imagine how happy the gulf states are about this whole new business coming in but washington is resolute to put more pressure on other countries to put forward more threats like cutting them off from the u.s. banking system. so in many countries the situation starts to look more like blackmail than anything else and was regards to iran and blackmail is essentially what the us calls diplomacy which by the way is not working but washington acts to hold not only ran hostage to sanctions but the whole world which is of course creating more cash. heading for the stars but lost at sea there's been a rare failure for russian you that's like collaboration as a rocket carrying communications equipment additions in minutes on the take.

a suicide bomber has attacked the u.s. embassy in the turkish capital ankara killing a security guard authorities say the attacker who was reportedly a member of the left wing group detonated explosives as he was passing through an x. ray scanner at the entrance to the building arches correspondent policia brings us more details. now according to eyewitnesses there was this massive bang also pins of smoke that have been erupting outside of the american embassy or american embassy staff have been taken to stay friends inside the embassy this blast did happen in a part of ankara where there are several other indices including that of germany as well as all fronts the explosion caused no damage inside the embassy itself but it did cause extensive damage to the outside wall there are a number of illegal groups ranging from the kurdish separatists to lift just to islamic militants who have launched attacks in recent years in turkey you also have

in addition to this violence from syria that continuously spills across the border and in the past artillery from syria has killed turkish civilians what that means is that you have a whole host of groups who could have carried out this attack back in september there was that notorious mission in benghazi in libya where we had four american stock members killed including the american ambassador and then just a few days ago you had britain's foreign office warning of a potential threat against the british embassy in tripoli so what we are witnessing is a chain of events targeting western embassies not least of all the united states that seems to be picking up momentum and it is a reflection of the growing anger against washington and other western countries at a particularly unstable time in the region. professor of international relations for billikins university in turkey believes that the u.s. is should be less involved in other countries affairs to avoid such attacks in the

future. for surprisingly when there was an issue did not play as we move into the election campaign where much expected before mr obama was reelected now he does post or has been reelected. he was reelected who are domestic reasons extension who are shutting down americans in the. us who hope that now of course he is likely to financial being drawn in directly to any. into issues to do with security and into issues and cost. the americans maybe letting the french and british play a lead role in north africa but also american intelligence assets american military advice and saw what is going on to. the risk must be. american institutions and. buildings will be talking to the elsewhere. meanwhile in syria internal conflict it's taking on the international dimensions syria's key opposition groups and. syrian territory.

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it. they're watching our team it's not so great to be in britain that's the idea some u.k. politicians want to promote to but eventually european migrants they fear a huge influx from some easy states that are now allowed to live anywhere in the bloc artist politico takes up the story. as one official put it the negative ad campaign about britain would help to dispel the myth that the streets in the u.k. all paved with gold and the politicians certainly are worried and they've got it

wrong in the past you see back in two thousand and four the previous labor government got it really wrong they got the figures so wrong about the number of poles that were coming over to potentially live in england they suggested that there would be something around fifteen thousand polish citizens coming over to the u.k. lo and behold less than a decade later the polish community in the u.k. is one of the biggest communities and polish is the second language spoken in england and wales the previous year was the year of the olympics and politicians trump and trumpeting great britain and how london and britain is the best destination the world billions of pounds poured into advertising to really sell the u.k. but it seems that for immigrants potential immigrants from rumania and from bol garia the message is that britain isn't so great after all so a lot of people use that sort of as quite farcical the fact that the government is

willing to trash its own image and to admit that there are problems with the economy in disarray that there's a housing crisis and that there are problems with schools and hospitals everyone's been having a good old chuckle over the idea of a negative ad campaign and yes some people have actually said that it's quite insulting but for remaining ians and for vogue ariens but one newspaper has even suggested that people send in their own suggestions for what an anti britain poster would look like and the result has been really quite scathing and quite harsh to britain as a country we've got slogans that include u.k. yuck and come to britain and clean the toilets or even britain we haven't left ourselves because the public transport isn't running so people very sort of mocking at the same time but quite so. scathing about the country and we also took to the streets of london to find out what ordinary londoners think about the situation let's take a lesson there is these pathetic these mixed messages and it's hypocrisy in the day

i think a waste of time. actually. seems like to be porous or just over there don't really have a job i'm not to be shown for me telly. at the moment leave here everything too much expensive westminster is bound by law so they have to follow these rules and they have to allow anybody who wishes to come over in twenty fourteen to enter the country but a lot of citizens in the u.k. as you saw there that feel that it's insulting to those people and a waste of money having advertised britain previously. sexual abuse harassment and loss of faith them are the german catholic church later we investigate all hush money and destroy the evidence helps increase accused of serious crime as good trial. runs as president francois hollande is

planning a trip to mali to survey what's been hailed as a successful military intervention against islam as the french acknowledged however that the operation is now entering a tricky phase which is likely to involve guerrilla tactics from the extremists observers as say the three week long fighting has spread more havoc across the country with civilians paying a bloody price for it we've got the story of one of the victims brought to us exclusively by local journalists gonzalo one child. grosser there are four of us as betty ellis the war became a real nightmare for the people of this small city and they say good region was one of the first places bombed by french warplanes before more jihadists arrived sweeping south towards the capital but mark and the french intervention left a pile of debris in ashes and that's just the visible traces of the war they left it civilians who are left with the scars that will last a lifetime one family paid a deep price for this conflict against the islamist terrorists one of the family

sons was killed by a jihadist soldier inside his own home. from brother was attacked by a group of militants the rich children among them he started running and got back into our house but they followed him one of the children fired at him but missed and then another insurgent shot him inside the house my brother fell and was riddled with bullets we laid his body in the house so we couldn't bury him because we were afraid to go outside. because we see this is just one example of the terror that the conflict is putting mali in civilians three plaguing the weakest the most no one was surprised when india bali once you had his troops arrived it was discovered that the majority of the military were heavily armed child soldiers. what is gussy upcoming visit of president francois hollande to mali with stress by bass journalist an expert on funds robert hahn if it believes that the trip is all about political grandstanding. he may regard this is

a window of opportunity to present this is a great french excess which militarily technically tactically certainly looks like let's be honest but it's his opportunity because clearly in the background there is considerable american assistance there are now british troops coming in eight thousand african troops it's not going to be further out i may say the french are very reluctant to approach the algerian from to go too closely because algeria and france as you know have a long history with. bits of the civil war i think this may well be the last chance for longhouse to claim a victory before it all becomes obviously an allied operation and i think that's probably the main reason. there's more news for you online including torture executive executions and a taste for covering it all up these are the reasons why one cia with wolf blitzer against the agency and got thirty months in jail and to r.t. dot com his revelation. and find out all about

a world war two era city that exists only for six days a yeah we've got all the details about the russian atlantis at our team dot com. rocketed with communications equipment on board has strayed off course and plunged into the pacific ocean soon after take up the company responsible for the launch has said it will look into why it happened is r.t. if you've got a piece going off with the details. the zenith rockets with the u.s. communications satellite on board blasted off from the odyssey floating platform what went off course almost immediately and its engines were switched off and it did into the pacific somewhere along the equator less than a minute after takeoff now on the equator the earth's rotation speed for vides an

additional booster rocket so they could carry more weight and when it comes to launching from floating platforms besides looking or some there are advantages and disadvantages like there's a minimal risk of rockets falling down on inhabited areas but waves could be a problem in fact there is speculation that that could have been the case the start is a collaboration between russia in their gear and to us boeing companies they've been working together since one thousand nine hundred five thirty four successful launches while this was supposed to be the first launch in two thousand and thirteen serious blows to the reputation of the german catholic church have resulted in more and more worshippers turning their backs on it child abuse and sexual harassment cases committed by priests that today even get to court are seen as the main reason for dramatically shrinking call greg ations you may find some of the details in peter oliver's report disturbing. the

abuse of trust the destruction of faith the theft of innocence. in one nine hundred seventy nine when i was invited to his house he locked the doors and forced me to drink what i now know was alcohol yes he asked me what i thought of his penis which was a wrecked then the priest made me perform oral sex on him. the catholic church in germany is facing a crisis attendances dropped significantly over the past few years according to the central committee of german catholics one hundred eighty thousand parishioners stopped going to mass in twenty ten alone many citing church hierarchy unwillingness to do enough about claims of abuse like the ones made by wilfred the priest at the center of this particular scandal is now being moved to a different parish while this church where its alleged abuses took place remains

closed to worshippers but just how difficult is it to bring a criminal prosecution in cases like this if those people go to court now it's very difficult to get to a sentence because the richness is sometimes died in between the memory has got lost and so those attempts to get to have a trial usually fail christine pfeiffer had been in charge of an extensive study into abuse in the german catholic church dating back as far as nineteen forty five his research claims that the church destroyed files on priests involved in abuse up to ten years also the twelve hundred victims were paid hush money not to reveal what happened to them he was dismissed after a dispute with senior clergy over what information would be made public the scandal that this research is no not going to be finished. it's causing problems to them as

well now they're losing members because of the new headlines of the last few weeks there are those within the church that recognize the importance of transparency if lapsed catholics are to be brought back into the flock and then. moving in when we do not make things clear and there will always be an aftertaste that something has been covered up this will harm attempts to get people into church because it is a bad foundation for trust and all belief is based on trust. and one for jaime for wilfrid that trust has been lost he says he will never set foot in a church again he's committed to getting compensation for himself and those others who claim they were abused by people who were supposed to be in a position of responsibility peter all of a r.t. germany. now to other international news at this hour a bomb blasts and like it's done has left people did and injured more than forty on

a crowded street with both shia and sunni mosques police say a motorcycle packed with explosives was detonated killing worshippers who were leaving after friday prayers no group as he had said is responsible for the attack the incident happened close to pakistan's asemi autonomy's tribal region with a strong taliban and al qaeda presence. in a hurry clinton america's sixty seven the secretary of state has formally resigned from her post as success listen to john kerry will replace her after swearing in ceremony on friday her resignation caps an especially turbulent four year to near turner marked by a conflict of revolutions and military intervention. sunni protesters in iraq have blocked a major highway in the west of the country protests by the minority group to praise most weeks but these appear to be the largest since the end of last year they're angry at what many see as discrimination against them by the government

a group willing to do al qaeda has also urged them to take up arms. israeli warplanes have been reported in the skies over lebanon just a day after syria accused tell of evil of launching airstrikes on its military research facility killing two israel has kept a stony silence over the attack which if confirmed is a direct violation of the u.n. charter syria's key opposition groups have joined the force of outrage over the bombing the national coalition slammed the a strikes as an attack on the country's sovereignty while the government has pledged to retaliate some middle east experts however take the rebels condemnation of these really interact with the action because the reported bombing of the side actually plays into their hands. the moment thing right now story number the this comes on the heels. of systematic targeting of syrian our bases by the syrian free army and the syrian opposition

also i'd like to remind you that the syrian opposition has already thought of a radar station on the edges of the golan heights last year so this comes as a continuation of the effort to this royd the syrian army by the opposition and now by the monsters themselves by the israelis so what we are witnessing now is a reflection of the political impasse that the syrian opposition as suffering from being unable to achieve anything significant on the ground they have resorted to help from the zionists directly i don't think that the israelis have a policy of making public comments of strikes be it assassinations or strikes that they launch outside the boundaries of international law because lavelle's he had a couple of minutes with the latest edition of crosstalk stay with our team. reparable

fiasco actually caused a fiasco by singing a song highly critical of president obama ironically at a concert in honor of his second inauguration according to the huffington post he was thrown off stage by security for insulting the dear leader the sounds really bad like something out of one thousand nine hundred four were thugs come out of nowhere the second you say something out of line about the party. to the song loop it was sunny had been going on for thirty minutes at that point this rant was more like a hip hop filibuster stopping the whole show and dragging on and on and on and so i think security just wanted to silence him in general not silence his anti obama

opinions so you know loopy next time when you want to bring up obama's drone usage or total disregard for the constitution then keep it under three minutes and everything will be just fine but that's just my opinion. he. plays.

a low in welcome to cross talk for all things are considered i'm peter lavelle i'm forgetting iraq largely ignored by the media mainstream iraq is faced with a number of serious fault lines growing authoritarianism corruption separatism and political fragmentation this can hardly be the legacy washington wanted but it formally ended military occupation on top of this baghdad appears to be crafting its own not a western form paul. to cross talk joined by puppet escobar and some paolo he is a journalist and author in london we have sami ramadani he is a senior lecturer in sociology at london metropolitan university and in jerusalem we crossed amir far he is a middle east expert right gentlemen crosstalk.